April 30, 2019
celebrate your birth
each and every day
we only have a little time
on this earth to stay
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Your #birthday is a special day, but so are every other day that follows on this earth - you are still alive! What will you take the time to #celebrate today? 🎂😊”
Jenelle Jindal writes poems the way a physician works toward a diagnosis: through close attention to what presents itself. Her work uses the compressed lyric to examine the craft of medicine, asking how we describe, teach, and measure what resists easy instrumentation in care. At its deepest, that attention becomes presence, a quality both poetry and medicine demand but cannot fully teach. She studied biological sciences and linguistics at Stanford before training in medicine and neurology at Yale and at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Poet Doctor